Macduff School, BANFFSHIRE
Macduff School is a primary school for pupils in Banffshire.
- Attendance
- 93.4%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Macduff School in detail
School in Scotland
Macduff School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
Macduff School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 280 pupils, an average class size of 25.5 and 17.2 pupils per teacher.
23% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 34% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 8% speak English as an additional language.
0% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 0% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.4% in 2024/25, and 20.9% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as satisfactory (B) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 67% full.
Macduff School in its own words
In its own words: "For everyone in school to aspire - to reach for the stars! We all voted to change our values Class/Pupil Councils, staff and Parent Council then all members of our school community were asked to make choices from list of worthy values we had created."
Coming up: an open evening on Thursday 24 June 2027 at 6pm and an open evening on Thursday 1 July 2027. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.
All school open days in Aberdeenshire
Vision and values (school website)Open days on the school's site (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Macduff School are Banff Primary School (1.5 miles), Whitehills School (3.4 miles) and King Edward School (4.1 miles).
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Macduff School.
15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Barnhill Road (opposite), 150 metres away.
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Macduff School in April 2026.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Macduff School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 2
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Questions parents ask about Macduff School
When was Macduff School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Macduff School in April 2026. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Macduff School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Macduff School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Macduff School?
If you live in Macduff School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Aberdeenshire will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Aberdeenshire - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Macduff School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Aberdeenshire is 0 (the median across 163 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Macduff School?
Macduff School is at Berrymuir Road, Macduff, BANFFSHIRE, BANFFSHIRE, AB44 1PT.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)